You Don't Mess Around With Jim

by Jim Croce

You Don't Mess Around With Jim cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: April 1972
  • Label: ABC
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 33:12
  • Community rating: 4.03/5 from 7 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Featuring beloved, timeless acoustic staples like 'Time in a Bottle' and 'Operator', Jim Croce's breakthrough album is a wonderfully intimate masterpiece of American folk-pop. The record is incredibly warm and beautifully soothing, pairing wonderfully melodic, deeply sentimental storytelling with fiercely uplifting, highly introspective singer-songwriter craft.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, melodic, storytelling, folk, confessional, classic, accessible

Tracklist

  1. You Don't Mess Around with Jim (3:02)
  2. Tomorrow’s Gonna Be a Brighter Day (2:53)
  3. New York's Not My Home (3:07)
  4. Hard Time Losin’ Man (2:28)
  5. Photographs and Memories (2:08)
  6. Walkin’ Back to Georgia (2:51)
  7. Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels) (3:49)
  8. Time in a Bottle (2:28)
  9. Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy) (2:46)
  10. Box #10 (2:27)
  11. A Long Time Ago (2:21)
  12. Hey Tomorrow (2:46)

Credits

  • Jim Croce - primary artist, written-by
  • Terry Cashman - producer
  • Tommy West - producer

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